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By: Luc J

Luc J — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:27:56 +0000

Good luck with your roof! Was interesting to read, I never heard of those micro-inverters. I’ve got one single inverter for my 24 panels, working at its maximum capacity and adding panels is just what I’d like to do. But I suppose that I can keep the single inverter for the existing panels and add micro inverters for the additional ones, I’m going to look into that.

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Stuff You’ll Like | Chuqui 3.0 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:02:53 +0000

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By: John C. Randolph

John C. Randolph — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:54:17 +0000

BTW, since we live in a semi-arid climate where the humidity is very low when we need air conditioning, you might want to look into a vendor called “coolerado”, which has a very interesting updated evaporative cooling technology. Their coolers vent humid, cool air to the outside, which you can use to cool the solar cells.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMP0BiAt-yU

-jcr

By: Amie Gillingham

Amie Gillingham — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:12:12 +0000

After all that (and still not done–yikes!) are your panels actually collecting anything usuable yet? I have no idea how the stored-energy portion of solar works, although I suspect I’m going to vicariously learn a lot in the near future, lol!

By: Dad

Dad — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:37:27 +0000

Interesting. Thanks for sharing the adventure. Sure seems like a challenging house to work on! What size array did you end up getting total? Any guesses on what percentage of your annual electrical use it’ll provide?

By: Quynh Dang

Quynh Dang — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:44:37 +0000

I’m glad that you have an electrician that you can trust, you have no idea how rare that is.
P.S. Oh that sarcasm mark, if I had a nickel..

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